2015 Topps Stadium Club Baseball - The Dodger Insert Cards

The insert cards found in packs of 2015 Stadium Club really do pale in comparison to the base cards in the set.  Although, the on-card autographs I've seen do look great.  Unfortunately, I've only seen a handful of the Dodger autograph cards that are available.  In fact, I have not seen any of the "Co-Signer" or "True Colors" autographs for any player (except as a redemption card).  Go here to check out all of my past post on this set. 

Base Autographs

#SCA-CKW Clayton Kershaw 
(redemption card)

#SCA-FV Fernando Valenzuela                 #SCA-JPN Joc Pederson

2015 Topps Stadium Club Baseball - The Dodger Base Cards

It's all about the base!

This just might be the best set of the 2015 Baseball season.  Really!  We aren't even half-way through the season yet and I'm certain there's no way either Topps or Panini could possibly make a better set.

Featured here are all of the Dodger base cards to the 2015 Stadium Club brand, and they are all with almost little exception fantastic.

As you know, Stadium Club focuses on photo quality and uniqueness, and for the second straight year Topps gets high marks on both those factors.  There's beautiful photography all around.  The cards can make you smile, reminisce or gaze like you're looking at a beautiful sunset.

Wow!  Topps has done good... Really good.

Go here to check out a complete checklist to this set.

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Unquestionably, the Fernando Valenzuela card below is the best ever.  Ever!  Ever!  Ever!  I keep staring at it wondering if I might be reaching, jostling or lurking in the background. 

That's me... Right?  At center... At the top... Man... I so want that to be me right there.

I just love this card.

#1 Fernando Valenzuela

Clayton Kershaw Featured on Topps 2015 Stadium Club Boxes

Perennial Cy Young winner and reigning National League MVP Clayton Kershaw is featured prominently on boxes of Topps newest Baseball card set - 2015 Stadium Club.  When you consider that this product is meant to showcase the best photography they could muster it's no surprise they decided to put one of this generations best lefties on the boxes.  Check out a pic of the boxes above.  BTW, this set officially went live today.

I hope to have photos of all the Dodger cards soon, so stay tuned.  In the meantime, I thought I would share a handful of non-Dodger cards from the set that I thought used outstanding photos. 

I think the Ernie Banks and Lou Gehrig cards are in a close tie for my favorite.  The Banks card shows him receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.  Lou Gehrig is shown playing leapfrog over a swinging bat.

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Blog Kiosk 12/5/2014 - Dodger Links - Andre Ethier, AJ Ellis and Van Slyke

Featured above are Shawn Green, Vin & Sandra Scully and Justin & Kourtney Turner.  They were on hand for an Dodger sponsor event for UPS at Dodger Stadium the other day.  Photo above via Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers 2014.  Go here to see more photos from the evening.

Below are some links to check out:

• Listen to this past Wednesday's Off-Season Dodger Talk here.  Adrian Gonzalez comes on the air to speak with the guys.
• Via Cary Osborne at Dodger Insider, "The scouting report on Kershaw, Koufax and Clemente."
• Via Ben Golliver at Sports Illustrated, "Magic Johnson recognized with SI's Sportsman of the Year Legacy Award."
• The preview card below is just awesome.  What a great photograph.  Via Chris Olds at Beckett, he shares some preview pics for 2015 Topps Stadium Club that is expected to come out on June 24, 2015.  Go here to check out more pics and bow down to the glorious Fernando Valenzuela card below.
  
• Via Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, "Ethiers dedicate Learning Center at Rescue Mission."

"I'm using the winter to take a step and get myself back to where I need to be," Ethier said. "You can't expect people to give it to you. You've got to earn it. I'm going for it in the offseason, so I will be prepared to compete and win a job.

"[Management] is busy hustling to get the team and the organization to the way they want it to be -- not just setting us up for next year, but for years to come. That's what happens with a shakeup. We really don't need that much on the Major League level. We need a good system top to bottom."

• Fine!  I'll link a Bill Plaschke article, but only because I liked it, "Bringing back catcher A.J. Ellis is received wisdom on Dodgers' part."  Check it out here.

But on the mound and in the clubhouse, it was a no-brainer, and the fact that new baseball bosses Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi recognized that so quickly speaks volumes about the balance between numbers and intangibles that they could be willing to strike.

"It was based on the totality of his contributions to the team," Zaidi, the Dodgers' new general manager, said of Ellis. "It's not an intangible, it's a tangible that he creates."

• Funny!

Van Slyke on if the Dodgers signed Jon Lester: "It would give Kershaw another lefty weirdo to talk to. He's a very good pitcher"
— MLB Network Radio (@MLBNetworkRadio) December 4, 2014

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